Whether you like these new words or not, however, according to the Oxford Dictionaries blog, you can't "vote them off the island" (are we still doing that?) because, they explain, "here at Oxford Dictionaries we use language research to describe, rather than prescribe, language usage." Essentially, they're saying, you made these words happen. They're just reporting what they see.

So, what are they? Here are the sentences they provide to kick things off:

Say what you will, the Oxford Dictionary peeps are fully prepared for these new words to generate controversy. Per their blog,

Debate about how many times ‘ha’ should be added to the exclamation mwahahaha – another new addition, representing ‘laughter, esp. manic or cackling laughter such as that uttered by a villainous character in a cartoon or comic strip’ – is likely to rage amongst the tweeps.

Rage on, tweeps. Rage on.

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